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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · Back Bay Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher... |
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Pebble in the Sky
Isaac Asimov · Orb Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire... |
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The Hobbit
J R R Tolkien
Format: Book
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This deluxe hardcover edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy contains a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien s own drawings and full-color illus |
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The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover
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First impression. Flat-signed by author on title page.. |
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Andrew's Brain: A Novel
E.L. Doctorow · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE THELEGRAPHThis brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Format: Paperback
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A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who dont know how to live properly. —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their... |
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Bright, Precious Things: A novel
Jay Mcinerney · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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"The crowning achievement from the preeminent writer of his generation: following Brightness Falls and The Good Life, Bright, Precious Things builds on a series increasingly akin to John Updike's Rabbit novels but with a long-standing if weathered couple at its heart. Russell and Corrine... |
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Tell Me: 30 Stories
Mary Robison
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Chosen from Robison's three long-unavailable collections, along with four new stories, Tell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories (most of which have appeared in The New Yorker) , we enter her sly w |
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Debriefing: Collected Stories
Susan Sontag · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of one of our most powerful intellectual's short fictionDebriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems... |
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The Only Story: A novel
JULIAN BARNES · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually and suddenly moving in the opposite direction.Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only... |
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A Man of Parts
David Lodge · Viking Adult; F First Edition Remainder edition
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth centurys most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose... |
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Riders of the Purple Sage and the Rainbow Trail
Zane Grey · Forge, 2015.
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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Riders of the Purple SageZane Grey's most enduring classic--the book that invented the myth of the American West. In the little village of Cottonwoods, Utah, Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen endures persecution, religious zealots, and cattle rustlers trying to prey on her land. Aided... |
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